Chapter Ten (第2/2页)
oo scious t ss, as co speak in o tell me, bluntly, eresting.
You t flutter uneasily a s, they?
t—al, — sake d lint from t as muco calm
o calm me. tter.—Noer, s mustnt be creased—
It mustnt be creased, for Mr Riverss sake: I ake .
Oh!
I do not knoween my fingers, my own fles an hour.
Ohink me wicked, Sue?
icked? shinking: A simple girl like you?
Ss me into my bed and lies mine; but soon ss edges, its surfaces. I t sleep, unless I touc is cold, but I go quietly from to table, carpet, press. to Sue. I o touco be sure t s. But I ot leave my an inc, he pillow, her face, as she sleeps.
I do t, pers in a rohis happens.
Riake us go to t far from me, against turned boat; and my side, pretending to c. I paint t so many times, tarts to rise and crumble be I paint on, stubbornly, and o w fiercely:
God damn you, Maud, so calm and steady? bell? ter. t we migead, you keep us here—
ill you move? I say. You are standing in my light.
You are standing in mine, Maud. See is, to remove t stle step is all t must be made. Do you see? ill you look? S. Sing. t piece of— O me find a matc!
I gla Sue. Be quiet, Richard.
But t last es a day, so close and airless, t overpo, tilts to sime, ternoon is still and almost pleasant: ter, ts. I dra across trokes, and almost fall into slumber.
turn to look at s o ly. And ures to Sue.
Sill sits before turned boat, but tten ip it, curves to te asleep. ts against of are trips of pinking flesh.
I look again at Ri bay painting. I say quietly, you wake her?
S muco sunlig fondly, but laug tc sleep. S got kno.
, not as if erest at tretcs to , and sroubles s o ly sniffs. I beg your pardon, his handkerchief.
Sue does not frourns her head. her lower lip
slig keeps its curve and point. I ed my brusouy crumbling painting; no, till. I suppose udies me. I suppose t—for I find it later, black paint upon my blue go mark it as it falls, is my not marking it, t betrays me. t, or my look. Sue froctle lourn, and find Richards eyes upon me.
Oh, Maud, he says.
t is all in last, her.
For a momeo me and takes my . tbrush falls.
e quickly, he says. e quickly, before she wakes.
akes me, stumbling, along ter flo top, s o my s.
O. But this—!
I urned my face from feel smile, I say, s laugh.
Laug be glad I dont do s to ites are said to be pricked, by matters like t a gentleman so muc codes. You may love and be damned, for all I care.—Dont o t from igs me lean from tle, but grips my . You may love and be damned, keep me from my money—keep us languis back our plot, our future—you s, no. Not norifling tay for. No is as tiresome to me as to you, so!—Let her wake up
and seek us out. Let e to me? Very good. I s last; and so . Stand steady, now.
. ts against t billoo a silence.
t will bring her, he says.
I move my arms. You are ing me.
Stand like a lover tle as anytried to strike o make me bruise you?
pinning doall, rong. about my —as young mens fingers are meant to do, I believe, on ts of ts. For a time I strain against tand braced and sing as a pair of lers in a ring. But I suppose t, from a distance, seem swaying in a kind of love.
But I to tire. till upon us. till c, ter still laps among t tured or ripped: I feel it begin to droop ale, close about me, in suffog folds.
I am sorry, I say weakly.
You be sorry, now.
It is only—
You must be strong. I rong, before.
It is only—
But, only ? Only t s , sed toot s me soup—clear soup—instead of an egg, and smiled to see me drink it. t shinks me good . . .
Ri to me, Maud, igen! If it must be ced, and robbed of y, for us to be free. the girl
tors ake, — ?
I begin to fear t, after all, I t for it..." Youve a , instead, for little fingersmitten ten? Do you suppose yourself anyto t? You oo long among your uncles books. Girls love easily, t is t of t o be ten.
one groell ; You s tell ing my iffening. t is ao me. tell Briar food. My uncle s care reats me for it.
I s tell , tell o be my wife; and so make good our escape, as you promised.
I turn my face from else sill iger anot s my ear.
to c disturb us. No her know I have you . . .
and pressure of and a akes one my and lifts my arm. , I flinc. Excuse my le way along my s ouc of his
ngue; and I saste—o knoands and cisfa, thinking me his.
For o myself. o o takes my cloak, takes my ser all- sands fro tly, across is all s I see it, and my gives a plu g, or dropping, t , so muc fear, or madness. I and stretc tudied gestures I ously, so long. Is t I, of all people, s kno I t desire smaller, er; I supposed it bound to its oaste is bound to to ts and ins me, like a siess. It covers me, like skin.
I t see it. No must colour or mark me—I t must mark me crimson, like paint marks t red points, tures. I am afraid, t nigo undress before o lie at o sleep. I am afraid I urn and touch her ...
But after all, if sremble, if s beat remble f, still ing. day I take o my mot and gaze at to I so and free from blemiso smas imes—t my mot I migo Sue: Do you kno did it!—and it is an effort, to keep te of triumph from my voice.
S catc. Sfort me—anyt all— w she says is: Mr Rivers.
I look from empt, to to turn my ts te. t be passed. Ss for me to speak. At last I tell ifully: Mr Rivers o marry him, Sue.
Sears, time, t wasrue ones—and w, O souches me and holds my gaze, and says: he loves you.
You think he does?
S. S flinc follow your .
I am not sure, I say. If I might only be sure!
But to love, so lose him!
I grooo scious of talks to me of beating blood, of t o I love o fear and e him.
Se. will you do? she says, in a whisper.
I do? I say. choice have I?
S anso gaze for a moment at t t turns back, her face has ged.
Marry ells me. hing he says.
So Briar to ruio c me and do me ell myself. See srifling! A ttle fingersmited, so my past, kept from my future—by . t dras grow close. / s, I s—
You are cruel, Ric t. I t Sue—I t be someone else you care for . . .
Sometimes I see old imes s me, sely—or else ouciff, so nervous and unpractised—I to leave toget tell hen.
do you say, Suky, to this? She loves you!
Loves me? Like a lady loves her maid?
Like certain ladies love t stle o keep you close about ? sroublesome dreams?—Is t ry to kiss you back . . .
ould s seems to me siously beside me no seems to me sen c t, t o terrible life—or else, t me o life, too vivid, too o see figures start out from tterns in ty carpets and drapes, or creep, he ceilings and walls.
Even my uncles books are e; and t of all. I art up, are filled ammer. I lose my place. My uncle s of brass, and t at me. t steadies me, for a time. But t, from a certain o pleasure anot of a man.
And soo it, and into it—
You like this, Rivers? asks my uncle.
I fess, sir, I do.
ell, so do ma is o my taste. Still, I am glad to note your i. I address t fully, of course, in my Index. Read on, Maud. Read on.
I do. Ae myself—and in spite of Rienting gaze—I feel tale amped, after all, ter ts pla my uncles colle. I leave t and go upstairs—go sloapping toes of my slippered feet against eacep. If I strike tand in darkness. o undress me I o suffer ouc suffer t toucailor.
A, even yield at last, to t of t lift and place t wo hers.
I o dream unspeakable dreams; and to imes sirs. Sometimes s. Go back to sleep, simes I do. Sometimes I dont. Sometimes I rise and go about times, take drops. I take drops, t; turn to sink, not into let only into more fusion. I tely read, to Riy uo me, noakes ongue—forced it rivingly—took s—opele—ttle t—
I ot sile see to gato s my kno make some sound, or movement; for wc sche bed is so dark.
Go to sleep, shick.
I feel my legs, very bare inside my go at he bed.
I say, Im afraid . . .
t is it? s Sue! If she were Agnes! If she were a girl in a book—!
Girls love easily, t is t.
ongue—
Do you think me good? I say.
Good, miss?
S felt like safety, ono feeis like a trap. 1 say, I wisell me—
tell you w, miss?
tell me. tell me a o save you. A o save myself. tly black. hip, lip—
Girls love easily, there.
I is a do, on
And at first, it is easy. After all, t is done, in my uncles books: to embrace you. It is easy. I say my part, and stle prompting—says is easy, it is easy .. .
ts o mine.
I , before, tlemans still, dry lips against my gloved , insinuating kisses upon my palm. tly to mine, but t my face. I ot see aste astes of sleep, sligoo sour. I part my lips—to breato s io dra, also. ongue es betouches mine.
And at t, I s is like t of sometroubling of a slo
our damp mouto g toget, to tear. Sing of a , and suppose it my o it is . Sly, to tremble.
tt of of her.
Do you feel it? srangely in te darkness. Do you feel it?
I do. I feel it as a falling, a dropping, a trig, like sand from a bulb of glass. t dry, like sand. I am . I am running, like er, like ink.
I begin, like o shake.
Dont be frigc soo, so me, and my fleso rembling, rembling, from tc be frig it is sened. ill s catcips of ter against my face.
Do you see? s is easy, it is easy. t— to touch you.
to touch me?
Only touctering ouchis.
s up my nigill. ter: t, and slide, and in sliding seem, like o qui and drao gat of t of my natural s I longed for o feel a longing so great, so s , and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Yet ill. S you are! — to press. I catc makes ate, and t last she
giving of my fles. S ate noo me and puts my t s , so a rime, a quii. Se: soon I seem to be no ts at tering, bursting out of o . her voice is broken. You pearl.
I dont knoress . Ss back t. t is still deep, till black. Our breatill e fast, our s beat loud—faster, and louder, to me, in th echoes of our voices, our whispers and cries.
I ot see after a moment s, akes it to and s speak. S is rising from . I reac up again, and lay it gently about her.
Everyto myself, is couc back my flesill feel ill feel ing my gaze. I tell ;I meant to c you. I ot c you no. e make it ours."—e make it ours, I t up entirely. I need only escape from Briar: she
—s o London, find money for ourselves . . .
So I calculate and plan, s , oget move a er. I rise up from my pillo: s, still , from the pressing of her hand.
You pearl, she said.
ts my gaze. My leaps hin me.
She looks away.
I t first. I tly about taking out my petticoats and goand, so s, s. And by seems to me t so groc seems queer in refle, crooked and o my keeps ime on ain hink, She is ashamed.
So then, I speak.
a tly. Didnt I?
ter. You did, she answers. No dreams.
No dreams, save one, I say. But t one. I t, Sue . . .
Se, t kisses, t to c c good. But I migo try to be. t. e make it ours—
In your dream? s last, moving from me. I dont t me. I ste almost smoked. You t.
I sit dazed for a moment, as if struck by o tcte, put back tumbling I keep at ter to my uncle. I anyoo plump, too pink—plumper and pi ailes, grinding lavender soap against my tohen wiping and wiping her hands upon her apron.
Everyt all. S back my fles fleso my drac, cover up , but s look—I tly at me, again. I meant to save o my uo to Mrs Stiles, to some up; of tes and days t stretcill to be lived. I t Riey, London, liberty. it Sue.
And so you see it is love—not s, not malice; only love—t makes me he end.
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oo scious t ss, as co speak in o tell me, bluntly, eresting.
You t flutter uneasily a s, they?
t—al, — sake d lint from t as muco calm
o calm me. tter.—Noer, s mustnt be creased—
It mustnt be creased, for Mr Riverss sake: I ake .
Oh!
I do not knoween my fingers, my own fles an hour.
Ohink me wicked, Sue?
icked? shinking: A simple girl like you?
Ss me into my bed and lies mine; but soon ss edges, its surfaces. I t sleep, unless I touc is cold, but I go quietly from to table, carpet, press. to Sue. I o touco be sure t s. But I ot leave my an inc, he pillow, her face, as she sleeps.
I do t, pers in a rohis happens.
Riake us go to t far from me, against turned boat; and my side, pretending to c. I paint t so many times, tarts to rise and crumble be I paint on, stubbornly, and o w fiercely:
God damn you, Maud, so calm and steady? bell? ter. t we migead, you keep us here—
ill you move? I say. You are standing in my light.
You are standing in mine, Maud. See is, to remove t stle step is all t must be made. Do you see? ill you look? S. Sing. t piece of— O me find a matc!
I gla Sue. Be quiet, Richard.
But t last es a day, so close and airless, t overpo, tilts to sime, ternoon is still and almost pleasant: ter, ts. I dra across trokes, and almost fall into slumber.
turn to look at s o ly. And ures to Sue.
Sill sits before turned boat, but tten ip it, curves to te asleep. ts against of are trips of pinking flesh.
I look again at Ri bay painting. I say quietly, you wake her?
S muco sunlig fondly, but laug tc sleep. S got kno.
, not as if erest at tretcs to , and sroubles s o ly sniffs. I beg your pardon, his handkerchief.
Sue does not frourns her head. her lower lip
slig keeps its curve and point. I ed my brusouy crumbling painting; no, till. I suppose udies me. I suppose t—for I find it later, black paint upon my blue go mark it as it falls, is my not marking it, t betrays me. t, or my look. Sue froctle lourn, and find Richards eyes upon me.
Oh, Maud, he says.
t is all in last, her.
For a momeo me and takes my . tbrush falls.
e quickly, he says. e quickly, before she wakes.
akes me, stumbling, along ter flo top, s o my s.
O. But this—!
I urned my face from feel smile, I say, s laugh.
Laug be glad I dont do s to ites are said to be pricked, by matters like t a gentleman so muc codes. You may love and be damned, for all I care.—Dont o t from igs me lean from tle, but grips my . You may love and be damned, keep me from my money—keep us languis back our plot, our future—you s, no. Not norifling tay for. No is as tiresome to me as to you, so!—Let her wake up
and seek us out. Let e to me? Very good. I s last; and so . Stand steady, now.
. ts against t billoo a silence.
t will bring her, he says.
I move my arms. You are ing me.
Stand like a lover tle as anytried to strike o make me bruise you?
pinning doall, rong. about my —as young mens fingers are meant to do, I believe, on ts of ts. For a time I strain against tand braced and sing as a pair of lers in a ring. But I suppose t, from a distance, seem swaying in a kind of love.
But I to tire. till upon us. till c, ter still laps among t tured or ripped: I feel it begin to droop ale, close about me, in suffog folds.
I am sorry, I say weakly.
You be sorry, now.
It is only—
You must be strong. I rong, before.
It is only—
But, only ? Only t s , sed toot s me soup—clear soup—instead of an egg, and smiled to see me drink it. t shinks me good . . .
Ri to me, Maud, igen! If it must be ced, and robbed of y, for us to be free. the girl
tors ake, — ?
I begin to fear t, after all, I t for it..." Youve a , instead, for little fingersmitten ten? Do you suppose yourself anyto t? You oo long among your uncles books. Girls love easily, t is t of t o be ten.
one groell ; You s tell ing my iffening. t is ao me. tell Briar food. My uncle s care reats me for it.
I s tell , tell o be my wife; and so make good our escape, as you promised.
I turn my face from else sill iger anot s my ear.
to c disturb us. No her know I have you . . .
and pressure of and a akes one my and lifts my arm. , I flinc. Excuse my le way along my s ouc of his
ngue; and I saste—o knoands and cisfa, thinking me his.
For o myself. o o takes my cloak, takes my ser all- sands fro tly, across is all s I see it, and my gives a plu g, or dropping, t , so muc fear, or madness. I and stretc tudied gestures I ously, so long. Is t I, of all people, s kno I t desire smaller, er; I supposed it bound to its oaste is bound to to ts and ins me, like a siess. It covers me, like skin.
I t see it. No must colour or mark me—I t must mark me crimson, like paint marks t red points, tures. I am afraid, t nigo undress before o lie at o sleep. I am afraid I urn and touch her ...
But after all, if sremble, if s beat remble f, still ing. day I take o my mot and gaze at to I so and free from blemiso smas imes—t my mot I migo Sue: Do you kno did it!—and it is an effort, to keep te of triumph from my voice.
S catc. Sfort me—anyt all— w she says is: Mr Rivers.
I look from empt, to to turn my ts te. t be passed. Ss for me to speak. At last I tell ifully: Mr Rivers o marry him, Sue.
Sears, time, t wasrue ones—and w, O souches me and holds my gaze, and says: he loves you.
You think he does?
S. S flinc follow your .
I am not sure, I say. If I might only be sure!
But to love, so lose him!
I grooo scious of talks to me of beating blood, of t o I love o fear and e him.
Se. will you do? she says, in a whisper.
I do? I say. choice have I?
S anso gaze for a moment at t t turns back, her face has ged.
Marry ells me. hing he says.
So Briar to ruio c me and do me ell myself. See srifling! A ttle fingersmited, so my past, kept from my future—by . t dras grow close. / s, I s—
You are cruel, Ric t. I t Sue—I t be someone else you care for . . .
Sometimes I see old imes s me, sely—or else ouciff, so nervous and unpractised—I to leave toget tell hen.
do you say, Suky, to this? She loves you!
Loves me? Like a lady loves her maid?
Like certain ladies love t stle o keep you close about ? sroublesome dreams?—Is t ry to kiss you back . . .
ould s seems to me siously beside me no seems to me sen c t, t o terrible life—or else, t me o life, too vivid, too o see figures start out from tterns in ty carpets and drapes, or creep, he ceilings and walls.
Even my uncles books are e; and t of all. I art up, are filled ammer. I lose my place. My uncle s of brass, and t at me. t steadies me, for a time. But t, from a certain o pleasure anot of a man.
And soo it, and into it—
You like this, Rivers? asks my uncle.
I fess, sir, I do.
ell, so do ma is o my taste. Still, I am glad to note your i. I address t fully, of course, in my Index. Read on, Maud. Read on.
I do. Ae myself—and in spite of Rienting gaze—I feel tale amped, after all, ter ts pla my uncles colle. I leave t and go upstairs—go sloapping toes of my slippered feet against eacep. If I strike tand in darkness. o undress me I o suffer ouc suffer t toucailor.
A, even yield at last, to t of t lift and place t wo hers.
I o dream unspeakable dreams; and to imes sirs. Sometimes s. Go back to sleep, simes I do. Sometimes I dont. Sometimes I rise and go about times, take drops. I take drops, t; turn to sink, not into let only into more fusion. I tely read, to Riy uo me, noakes ongue—forced it rivingly—took s—opele—ttle t—
I ot sile see to gato s my kno make some sound, or movement; for wc sche bed is so dark.
Go to sleep, shick.
I feel my legs, very bare inside my go at he bed.
I say, Im afraid . . .
t is it? s Sue! If she were Agnes! If she were a girl in a book—!
Girls love easily, t is t.
ongue—
Do you think me good? I say.
Good, miss?
S felt like safety, ono feeis like a trap. 1 say, I wisell me—
tell you w, miss?
tell me. tell me a o save you. A o save myself. tly black. hip, lip—
Girls love easily, there.
I is a do, on
And at first, it is easy. After all, t is done, in my uncles books: to embrace you. It is easy. I say my part, and stle prompting—says is easy, it is easy .. .
ts o mine.
I , before, tlemans still, dry lips against my gloved , insinuating kisses upon my palm. tly to mine, but t my face. I ot see aste astes of sleep, sligoo sour. I part my lips—to breato s io dra, also. ongue es betouches mine.
And at t, I s is like t of sometroubling of a slo
our damp mouto g toget, to tear. Sing of a , and suppose it my o it is . Sly, to tremble.
tt of of her.
Do you feel it? srangely in te darkness. Do you feel it?
I do. I feel it as a falling, a dropping, a trig, like sand from a bulb of glass. t dry, like sand. I am . I am running, like er, like ink.
I begin, like o shake.
Dont be frigc soo, so me, and my fleso rembling, rembling, from tc be frig it is sened. ill s catcips of ter against my face.
Do you see? s is easy, it is easy. t— to touch you.
to touch me?
Only touctering ouchis.
s up my nigill. ter: t, and slide, and in sliding seem, like o qui and drao gat of t of my natural s I longed for o feel a longing so great, so s , and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Yet ill. S you are! — to press. I catc makes ate, and t last she
giving of my fles. S ate noo me and puts my t s , so a rime, a quii. Se: soon I seem to be no ts at tering, bursting out of o . her voice is broken. You pearl.
I dont knoress . Ss back t. t is still deep, till black. Our breatill e fast, our s beat loud—faster, and louder, to me, in th echoes of our voices, our whispers and cries.
I ot see after a moment s, akes it to and s speak. S is rising from . I reac up again, and lay it gently about her.
Everyto myself, is couc back my flesill feel ill feel ing my gaze. I tell ;I meant to c you. I ot c you no. e make it ours."—e make it ours, I t up entirely. I need only escape from Briar: she
—s o London, find money for ourselves . . .
So I calculate and plan, s , oget move a er. I rise up from my pillo: s, still , from the pressing of her hand.
You pearl, she said.
ts my gaze. My leaps hin me.
She looks away.
I t first. I tly about taking out my petticoats and goand, so s, s. And by seems to me t so groc seems queer in refle, crooked and o my keeps ime on ain hink, She is ashamed.
So then, I speak.
a tly. Didnt I?
ter. You did, she answers. No dreams.
No dreams, save one, I say. But t one. I t, Sue . . .
Se, t kisses, t to c c good. But I migo try to be. t. e make it ours—
In your dream? s last, moving from me. I dont t me. I ste almost smoked. You t.
I sit dazed for a moment, as if struck by o tcte, put back tumbling I keep at ter to my uncle. I anyoo plump, too pink—plumper and pi ailes, grinding lavender soap against my tohen wiping and wiping her hands upon her apron.
Everyt all. S back my fles fleso my drac, cover up , but s look—I tly at me, again. I meant to save o my uo to Mrs Stiles, to some up; of tes and days t stretcill to be lived. I t Riey, London, liberty. it Sue.
And so you see it is love—not s, not malice; only love—t makes me he end.
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